Montgomeryville, PA
Montgomeryville, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Montgomeryville sits at the 9th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,220 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Montgomeryville at the 9th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Montgomeryville's 4,220 counted buildings, 52.6% carry Direct exposure and only 47.4% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Montgomeryville compares
There's little gap between Montgomeryville's 9th national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Montgomeryville ranks 28,630 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,040 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,851 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Montgomeryville and the insurance market
At the 9th national percentile, Montgomeryville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Montgomeryville
With 52.6% of Montgomeryville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,220 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Montgomeryville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Montgomeryville, see the exposure-zones guide.